Dalton High School Students Take to Twitter to Dare You to Suggest Arming Teachers

After all Trump’s bluster about arming teachers with guns in the wake of the Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School shooting—which took place exactly two weeks ago today—we’ve already seen the consequences of such an idea in action.

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Today, a notably “popular” social studies teacher at Georgia’s Dalton High School barricaded himself inside a classroom and fired off a handgun. While conservatives and liberals alike pontificate, Dalton High students are following in the footsteps of student-cum-gun-reform-advocates like Emma Gonzales and David Hogg, taking to Twitter and Snapchat to beg the NRA and the world to listen:

@nra my favorite teacher at Dalton high school just blockaded his door and proceeded to shoot. We had to run out The back of the school in the rain. Students were being trampled and screaming. I dare you to tell me arming teachers will make us safe.

What happened at Dalton High School today was very REAL. My classmates were shoved into dark classrooms not knowing if they’re were going to make it out alive and were literally posting their goodbyes on social media. Don’t you DARE make this into a conspiracy theory.

I’m a Dalton High School student. You can’t tell me that what happened today is fake. You can’t call what happened today a conspiracy. You weren’t there and don’t know the fear I had. To call my feelings fake and the ones of my fellows students is a joke. I was there you weren’t.

I’m a dalton high school student and that shit was scary as hell. Anyone who says these things are staged is an idiot. Arming teachers is not a good idea. I was at lunch w ab 300 other students and that was horrible.

what happened at my school is not okay. dalton high school should not be another number, that man is my teacher and not a conspiracy, this is a real problem, a real reason to talk about gun control, a real reason to provide a better place for me and my friends.

i’m a Dalton High School student. i’ve had multiple people tell me that we’d be safer if teachers were armed. if anyone else dares to say that to me i swear to god. multiple kids were just traumatized because of an armed teacher. stop being so insensitive.

I will remember seeing hundreds of students running out of the school. I’ll remember the tears of my friends blending in with the rain. I’ll remember holding back tears as my sister told me how afraid she was in the dark classroom. WE WONT FORGET.

I don’t care what your political beliefs are, change is needed. My school had to experience this, any school can, why can’t we just agree that this is not okay? Don’t normalize this. We were lucky no one was injured or killed, but that’s isn’t enough…this should NEVER HAPPEN.

This is from the eyes of what every student at Dalton High School went through today. No student should ever have to feel unsafe at school. This is why teachers should not be armed! pic.twitter.com/gEEsKEuHU0

@NRA I am a student from Dalton High School. Today I had to run to safety as one of the most popular teachers in my school was armed and fired shots. This is intolerable! Gun control is required in today’s society.

I’m a Dalton High School student and after the mass shooting in Florida happened I didn’t think it was a bad idea to arm teachers. I thought it would make kids feel secure and protected.. my mind has been changed today.